Australia

Auscott sold to Canadian-backed Australian Food and Fibre
- Farm Online
- 17 May 2021
PSP, one of Canada's largest pension investment managers, now adds a further 40,000 hectares to its large farmland holdings in New South Wales.
Who owns Australia?
- Guardian
- 16 May 2021
Complex web of data reveals large swathes of country controlled by small number of billionaires and large companies
Ontario Teachers’ invests in four family-run orchards to create single 500 ha business
- GAI
- 27 April 2021
The newly merged entity in Victoria, Australia will include more than 500 hectares of orchards, water rights, two packing houses and additional land.
Warakirri to raise $500 million for new fund
- The Land
- 19 April 2021
Australian farmland is an appealing asset class to Canadian-backed investment group, Warakirri Asset Management, with the firm having launched a new fund which expects to raise $500 million.
Australia: Unnamed European pension fund backs Warakirri farmland fund
- IPE
- 13 April 2021
An unnamed European pension fund has become the cornerstone investor in the just-launched, close-ended Warakirri Farmland Fund, which aims to raise up to €320m in equity.
Saudi Arabia to import wheat from Saudi farms abroad for delivery later this year
- Reuters
- 22 February 2021
Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer SAGO said it has agreed to import 355,000 tonnes of wheat from Saudi Arabian-owned farms in Australia, Canada and Ukraine for delivery from May to December 2021.
Australian family, backed by one of South Africa's richest men, buys Larrizona Station for $17 million
- ABC
- 01 February 2021
An Australian family, backed by one of South Africa's richest men, has bought its sixth Northern Territory cattle property, acquiring Larrizona Station for $17 million.
Farmland investing pays solid 12pc return, but China tensions niggle
- Country Life
- 04 January 2021
Bullish returns from farmland investments are likely to falter in 2021 because of Australia's increasingly prickly trade relationship with our huge agricultural export customer, China.
How one quarter of the farmland in some states is foreign owned - and China holds by far the most
- Daily Mail
- 14 December 2020
Foreign ownership of farmland in some states has surged to as high as 25 per cent as China maintains its position as Australia's most powerful foreign investor.
$300 million farm bid to bring Macquarie and Costa Group closer
- SMH
- 10 November 2020
Macquarie Group's $300 million takeover bid for a real estate investment trust, which owns vast farms across Australia, could pave the way for more farming deals involving the investment banking powerhouse and the fresh food giant Costa Group.
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets makes all-cash bid for Aussie farmland REIT
- Investable Universe
- 09 November 2020
Macquarie Group, one of the world’s largest alternative asset managers, has announced that one of its agricultural funds will seek to acquire all of the issued securities in Australian listed farmland REIT Vitalharvest
Farmers buy back Riverina holding from US fund
- AFR
- 01 November 2020
American pension fund giant TIAA sold its Southern Riverina farming aggregation between Wagga Wagga and Albury in southern NSW to local Australian farmers after more than a decade of ownership.